Having used pca to patch both a Solaris 8 and Solaris 10 Netbackup master and
media servers the application refused to work.
Considerable time was spent looking at Kernel, mpt patches etc. before the
problem was diagnosed as a Netbackup version mismatch i.e. the media server
being newer than th
Jonathan,
Not being an experienced user of pca it did not immediately occur to me
that pca would also patch Netbackup, can anyone suggest the best method
of excluding patches for a particular application?
If you don't want to use the ignore option, you can alternatively use
the pattern optio
Thanks Martin,
I will add this to the pca.conf file a give it a go.
Is there any way I can force pca to only apply the recommended and security
patches?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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Hi,
Is there any way I can force pca to only apply the recommended and security
patches?
Read about patch groups in the OPERANDS section of the docs. The default
is "missing", which means all missing patches. You can add "r" and/or
"s" to restrict this to a subset.
"pca -l missingrs" woul
Jonathan,
I put the following line in my .pca file to avoid Veritas Netbackup
and sendmail (I roll my own version of both):
pattern=!VERITAS|sendmail
The NOT VERITAS keeps the Sun version of Netbackup away.
Jeff Earickson
Colby College
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Jonathan Imber wrote:
Date: Thu, 1
Jeff,
Great tip, I will probably add sendmail also.
!VERITAS will presumably exclude volume manager also. I hope they don't decide
to rebadge the product as Symantec.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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Yup, I got screwed by the Sun Veritas patch one time, overlaying my
Symantec version of Netbackup. Luckily, the patch backed out and
everything was ok.
Jeff Earickson
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Jonathan Imber wrote:
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:56:14 +0100
From: Jonathan Imber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re
Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
Jonathan,
I put the following line in my .pca file to avoid Veritas Netbackup
and sendmail (I roll my own version of both):
pattern=!VERITAS|sendmail
I assume that this wont stop the kernel patches clobbering sendmail tho.
The NOT VERITAS keeps the Sun version of N
I assume that this wont stop the kernel patches clobbering sendmail tho.
No, which is just one of the problems with Sun stuffing application
patches into the kernel patch. Another is the inability to backout e.g.
just the sendmail fixes if you don't want them (buggy patches are
nothing new)
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Greg Matthews wrote:
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:45:01 +0100
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To: "PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion"
Subject: Re: [pca] Accidental Netbackup upgrade
Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
Jonat
Uhhh, kernel patches don't touch sendmail -- sendmail patches do.
Unfortunately this isn't true anymore. E.g. here's a list of patches
which include /usr/lib/sendmail:
118833-36: SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
118855-36: SunOS 5.10_x86: kernel patch
120011-14: SunOS 5.10: kernel patch
120012-14:
looks like u need to do !VRTS to be able to exclude volume manager.
!VERITAS wont do it.
Jonathan Imber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Martin Paul wrote:
Uhhh, kernel patches don't touch sendmail -- sendmail patches do.
Unfortunately this isn't true anymore. E.g. here's a list of patches
which include /usr/lib/sendmail:
A recent kernel patch also included ssh changes...
GREG
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This isn't PCA's fault. It has to do with Sun providing patches
for third party products in the same channel as patches for Sun
products.
You can edit the patchdiag.xref file, but it is royal pain (it
won't open in vi due to the line length restrictions) and you
would have to remember to do every
All,
I have been playing with the pca.conf file today and it's now working a treat.
Nothing we can do about the kernel patch, but defiantly one to be aware of.
We will be looking to use the missingrs option and then only install other
patches if really necessary.
Thanks to everyone for you adv
In the special notes in patches, there are often notes that say "to get
the complete fix for..., please install the following patches:" How do
folks generally handle those? Does anyone go through each and every
note and make sure those patches are all installed and if not, why not?
And what about
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Russell Millard Oliver wrote:
> In the special notes in patches, there are often notes that say "to get
> the complete fix for..., please install the following patches:" How do
> folks generally handle those?
I share your pain; what is the point of having included dependency
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